Combination holder and guard for tools



April 10, 1928. 1,665,256

F, GOE RTZ ET AL CO IBINATION HOLDER AND GUARDFOR TOOLS Filed Dec. 27. 1924 ATTORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 10, 1928.

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"maven-enema ANDWILLIAM' og norirn'er NEWARK, JERSEY, nssizenons:

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cement-Arron HOLDER Ann GUARD-non TOOLS,

Applicationfi1ed December-27, 1924:. SerialNo. 758,402. I

r This invention relates, generally, to improvements in cutting tools; and, the presentinvention has reference, more particularly, to a novel tool-holder and protecting guard, with a view of providing means adapted for use with a cutter, said means serving as a casingin which thec'utter' may lee-secured, when not in use, and from which casin a. ortion' of the cuttercan beforwardly pushed and secured sothat the said casing-will also-serve as a handle forthe cutter. V The present inventionahas lfor itsprinci palfobject to provide a novel and simply l5 1 tools, and especially for fiat cutting blades,

constructed holder and protectorgguard for y or tool's-of :a similar :nature; L

Other objects oftheqpresent invention not at this time more particularly enumerated will be clearly understood from the followingdetailed description of the present ;invention. v

With the various objects of the present invention in View, the said invention "consists, pr marily,'11n thegnovel tool and comb ned handle and {guard therefor,- and hereinafter more fully set forth;-and,-the-said invention consists, furthermore, in .the novel -,arrange-' ments and combi'nations-ofthe-severaldevlces and parts, as Well as in the deta ls of the constructionof the saidjpa-rtg, all of which'willbe more' tully described in the following specification; and-then finally emb0 ied in the clauses of the claims, which neath, said section being represented as be-.

ing taken on line yg in Figure l.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal vertical section, said section being taken on line 44c.in said Figure 2; Figure 5 is a similar sectional representation of the several devices and parts, showing the cutter or blade clamped in its partly removed relation to y' ovabie upon S the handle member' and the clamping, slide ofthe tool, ready for use; andfFigure' 6. is "a horizontal sectional representation of the tool, said section being'taken"on--line"z z in said Figure 5.

Figure 7 isa transverse vertical section of the tool, said section being, taken on line mm inFigure 2;,and Figure 8 is T a perspectivevvie'w lofone formfofcut'ter or lolad'e oi the'tool. A r 7 Similar haracters-ofref rence are as. ployed inall of the said above described views, to indicate correspon dingiparts.

Referring now to the several figures: of the drawings, thereference-character I "indicatesa complete toolmade 'a c cordingto the I comprising a jfiat main body-member, asf2, provided along itslongitudinally extending marginal edges {with right -angled walls 3 and 4, for ing "guides,- and x with which are con ectedthe laterally and inwardly pro je'ctin'gretainmg guide-flanges 'fij and 6.1" At principles of thepresent inventiomithesanie i one end, the'sai'd guide fiange's 5 and dare respectively "provided with enlarged: portions 17. and 8, brought into abutting relation -'v'vith each other, as at19,-the' said portions 7" and 8 tapering in adownward directionftoward the end 10' of the main body-mem'berj2, so

as to provide, a, wedge-shaped Qpe'n'i'ng, as I 11,111: said e d the body-member, a wi dy ineniber 2, between the longitudinally extending walls 3 and 4, and beneath the guide-flanges fraud 6, is aiflat blade 12 of substantially-the same length as the body-member 2, the said blade, I V

in the present case, being provided at one end'with a cutting edge, as 13, and the; said 'ibe clearly evident frornan' inspec'tionof Fig- 5, urjes 4 and '5 of the-drawings, i i i blade being of such thickness, that its cut- I ting portion can be readily moved backv and forth within the wedge-shaped opening 11 hereinbefore mentioned, so as to suitably project the cutting edge of the said blade beyond the said opening 11, substantially as shown inFigures 5 and 6 of the drawings. Disposed upon the upper surface of the said blade 12, with its longitudinally extending marginal edge-portions 15 and 16 project'- ing beneath the respective guide-flanges 5 and 6 is a fiat clamping slide or plate 14. The said plate extends at one end from the end portion 17 of themain body-member 2, the projecting'end'of the said slide or plate ion;

1 L being formedrwith an eye 18 for attachment thereto of'a finger-piece 19, usually in r the ,form of a wireloop or ring, as shown.

The said clamping slide or plate 1 L isof such length, that its end-portion 20 can be forcedagainst the lower surface-portions of the downwardly and forwardly tapering portions 7 and 8, whereby all of the various elements are adapted to be brought into clamped assembled relation, either in the positions'indicated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the drawing, or'in'the position-s 'reprer sented in Figures 5 and Got the drawing.

The manner of bringing the various ele ments'of the tooli'nto their clamped relation,s0 that the body-member 2 inaylbe used either'as an enclosing shell or guard, or as a handle for the bladeor cutter, as mayn'be vention to the exact arrangements'and'comdesired, is clearlyunderstood fromjan 71nspection; of the several figures of the drawings, and any further: description, ,of the same thereforefdeemedunnecessary.

tion asset forth in the foregoing'specification. Hence, .Wefdo not limit our present inbinations of the several devicesand parts as described in the said speoificatiomnor do we confine ourselves to'the exact details of .the constructionof the said parts, as illustratediri the accompanying drawings.

weclaimz 1. The'herein-describedtool; comprising a flat main body tormed with longitudinally V extending'marginal walls and guide flanges i extending laterally inward from said walls,

an inclined transverse member between the outer ends of said flanges, said member inclining towardsaid underlying main body to provide at the free end portion'of the-lat- :ter a wedge-shaped opening, a blade movably disposed intermediate said main body and its guide flanges and between said marginal Walls, said blade being adapted to be outwardly projected through said wedgeshaped opening, and a clamping slide longi-- V 7 said main body to cotudinally movable in operate with said blade and said incllned transverse member for inaintalmng the blade .fixed in desired longitudinal projeetion from said wedge-shaped opening.

2. The herein-described tool comprising a main body-member formed with 'longitudi- 'nally extending marginalwalls, and guideflanges extending laterally from :said walls,

said flanges being provided at one end with laterally extending and downwardly taper-p ing members in abutting relation with each other, all arranged to provide with anVendportion of said main body a Wedge-shaped opening, a blade 'movably disposedjbetween said body member and said .guide flanges,

said 'blade being adapted" to be projected from said wedge-shaped opening, I and a clamping slide'co-o'peratina ith Said blade.

tapering members of theguidp;

and the said flanges for maintaining the blade fixed in selected and a pull-loop connected with one end of longitudinally projected" position,

said clamping slide for-moving the opposite end-portion of said slide-into or out of .retaining engagement with the tapering mem- V bers ofsaid guide-flanges;

In testimony that we claim the invention set forth above we have hereunto set our hands this 23rd day of December, 1924.

FREDERICK GOERTZ; WILLIAM C. ROTHE;

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